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VTimofeenko··on The Synology End Game
Jonsbo N4 works really well for me. One downside is that the space for PCI cards provides only about half a standard height, so GPU choice is very limited. Low profile Arc A310 fits like a glove but is pretty hard to find these days
VTimofeenko··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
WireGuard by itself has a pretty noticeable network pattern and I don't think they make obfuscating it a goal.

There are some solutions that mimic the traffic and, say, route it through 443/TCP.

VTimofeenko··on Pixel 10 Phones
Yeah, I am on Pixel 9 pro too and quick trade in check shows that upgrade would cost net ~500$(256Gb). Arguably ~250$ if buying 10 would extend the gemini subscription for a year -- not sure about the verbiage of the terms here.

100x "composite" zoom is nice but not sure if it's worth it.

VTimofeenko··on Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
You can also use _netdev in the mount options, then systemd mount generator will generate the dependency on network automatically.
VTimofeenko··on 2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
Inb4: not an expert but I do have some ink.

Tattoos are basically ink being delivered in the lower layers of skin by poking. They look vastly different depending on the healing process. I'd imagine the scientists can distinguish between pre and post mortem punctures pretty well. The amount of ink remaining in the tattoo would probably also be very different.

VTimofeenko··on 2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
My grandfather worked on Soviet radio beacons in the far north of Siberia.

He used to tell stories about the face tattoos being a very important religious and status symbols. Supposedly only the most beautiful women were allowed to have them. Altai is pretty far from the north; it's interesting to see how this tradition spread through the region.

VTimofeenko··on Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites
It's probably the law of probabilities at play, like with 419 scams. If you cast a sufficiently big net, chances of catching something in it are decent
VTimofeenko··on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
I'm kinda in the same boat. Built quite a few kits back in the day but never painted them (at least to a quality I would admit to). I picked up a ww1 British tank some time ago and hope to finally get it right. When I was in the store, however, I'd say the majority of customers in the model kit section were teenagers.

Maybe there's just more hobbies available these days so fewer folks end up building the models.

VTimofeenko··on Dwl: Dwm for Wayland
I never found a config either and decided to go without any sort of a bar. That was two years ago and seems to be working fine for me.

I wrote a couple of tiny IPC watchers that send notifications on workspace change and whatnot. The rest is handled by centerpiece:

https://github.com/friedow/centerpiece/issues

VTimofeenko··on Animated Cursors
As in the cursor trailing to new position? I use it, albeit on a different emulator.

Greatly helps when demoing something from my terminal and having multiple splits open.

VTimofeenko··on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
As a paranoid and lazy person, I just pick my battles. No amount of fiddling with hardware security keys and secure computing is a reasonable protection against rubber hose cryptography.
VTimofeenko··on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
Cameras (like other iot devices) should be forbidden from going outside LAN.
VTimofeenko··on Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
It might have been removed due to the editor's impression that CachyOS is not significantly different from Arch. With proof to the contrary the page may be restored.

There are a lot of derivative(I don't mean it in a negative way) distors out there, not sure if they all need pages.

VTimofeenko··on Encrypting files with passkeys and age
Android pass+[yubi|nitro]key work fine through openkeychain:

https://f-droid.org/app/org.sufficientlysecure.keychain

VTimofeenko··on Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge
In that case the RAG should be based on an anime dataset
VTimofeenko··on Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale
Why not forbid going outside on port 53 and (optionally) redirect to the local DNS servers:

(nftables syntax)

ip saddr != @lan_dns ip daddr != @lan_dns udp dport 53 counter dnat ip to numgen inc mod 2 map { 0 : 192.168.1.1, 1 : 192.168.1.2 } comment "Force all DNS traffic to go through local DNS servers"

VTimofeenko··on In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home
IME(living in almost rural area, coyotes live in/near stormwater ponds and are abundant) they will follow you if you get too close to the den to try to drive you away, but won't engage.

Coyote pups are adorable though. A couple of them made a lair in a drain about a month ago but have relocated since. Still see one of them around the neighborhood with his distinctive tail.

VTimofeenko··on Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
Excellent post! I have a Nanoleaf 3d thing that I was hoping to use as an ambilight-like thing for the TV, but the experience was... meh. I know about the Hyperion project and hope to set it up one day, but meanwhile I think I could try to repurpose this code to control the strip from a Linux box.
VTimofeenko··on Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
Comes with a great LSP server capable of checking grammar in code comments:

https://writewithharper.com/docs/integrations/language-serve...

VTimofeenko··on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
We thought about getting a bidet installed and two electricians said that the (maybe freshly revised?) code explicitly demands a new circuit. It cannot branch off a "countertop" outlet that is meant to feed a hair dryer or something.
VTimofeenko··on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
Depending on the code, a separate outlet and/or a circuit might be required
VTimofeenko··on Mullvad Leta
Using an obscure browser that is not hiding its user agent is arguably worse for fingerprinting.
VTimofeenko··on Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing
I think you misunderstood the comment. Or maybe I did.

My understanding: the rubberhose crypto-analysis, even if unsuccessful, will result in some major damage done. Determined attacker might try to apply it regardless of any online statements on the off chance that the statements are wrong.

VTimofeenko··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
AVF feels a bit janky with its constant crashing on startup. 16GB space is a bit restrictive, though I doubt it won't be raised at some point.
VTimofeenko··on Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts
Thanks so much for making it! Usually fonts like this are a non-starter for me since they lack Cyrillic letters. Your inclusion of those symbols is much appreciated.
VTimofeenko··on Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
It's an Elder Scrolls game. Technical issues are part of the product spec.
VTimofeenko··on Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"
Yeah, the extra quotes do help
VTimofeenko··on Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"
TFA title seems odd. Article sez Backblaze has responded to the claims of "sham accounting" and (indirectly) to the claims that "customers backsups [are] at risk", yet the title wording implies that the backups are at risk as a consequence of BB responding.
VTimofeenko··on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
Assuming shallow depth is 450mm, you could fit in a Sliger shallow case. My workstation runs in one.
VTimofeenko··on Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)
Assuming $ still denotes US currency, that looks fairly expensive relative the average salary.

I remember paying about 10$ for a proper gigabit in Russia. Probably a perk of living right next to an exchange point.

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